Here are some slide presentations. I made and delivered these slide presentations with OpenOffice.org, a free open source office suite for Windows, Mac, and Linux. Download a free copy now and liberate yourself from Microsoft’s tyranny.
The first one is the presentation that I used to pitch the new facility. I made it on Sunday morning, and gave it for the first time Sunday evening. I then gave it to everyone I met for the next few days.
New Facility Presentation
Slides for OpenOffice.org (20 MB)
Slides for Powerpoint (20 MB)
The second one is the blatant recruiting pitch that I delivered thinly disguised as a report on our activities in Brisbane, at the recent retreat in Taupo, New Zealand 
253 slides in under 20 minutes. I’d just put the finishing touches on the presentation the night before so I flubbed it a bit at the end (most people probably wouldn’t notice), but otherwise it went quite well.
Sita-pati’s Report on Preaching in Brisbane
Slides for Powerpoint (92 MB)
Slides for OpenOffice.org (92 MB)
Audio Recording in Ogg Vorbis (10 MB)
Audio Recording in mp3 (10 MB)
I was going to make it into a movie that can play automatically, such as a compressed flash movie, but I haven’t got the skillz or the time. If someone else could do that, that would r0ck! The purpose of this presentation was to inform, entertain, and inspire, as well as allowing me to showcase some of the techniques of slide presentation that we have picked up over 2005.
Sukanthi Radha, our resident photographer, gave a slide presentation this morning at Red Hill and it rocked. She is going to work on it a little more, and then deliver it at the Sunday Feast. After that I’ll put it up along with the recorded audio. Seriously - it’s way better than any of mine so far.
Inspirational - best wishes on this new project
If that means just dropping each slide into iMovie and then adding a sound track or mixture of speaking and music then I can do it…there are a fair few options of formats to use (Quicktime movie, MPEG4, of specifically for Web-each have their variations in file size and also frames per second, which probably doesn’t matter if it is a slide show)…I’m slowly coming to terms with the different options…If you are wanting anything more than that then I can smile and nod and maybe even say I can do it and give it a go, but probably end up asking someone else to help me (which is also possible). Let me know. I have a reduced load after Tuesday (relatively speaking) If you give me a deadline then I work to it, otherwise I have been known to ride it a little
The files for OpenOffice and PowerPoint in Sita-pati’s Report on Preaching in Brisbane are reversed.
Fixed. Thanks for the heads up.
just downloaded and installed open office, then viewed your new facilities presentation. very nice.
keep up the astounding work.
you and srila devamrita swami are very inspiring for us here in nashville.
so nice to see the devotees going out with the books in hand.
will now get back to work while downloading your other presentation — the report on preaching in brisbane.
will take the open offc. program and your slides home tonight to show the family.
agtsp
bill